A rose by any other name…

A rose by any other name, would smell just as sweet, don’t you agree with me? Christians, show the holier than thou people that you are above the holier than thou people by showing how generous and peaceful you are.

If the word ‘Allah’ caused so much uproar, why not step back a little, and show the brainless that you have more brains and heart than them by not being barbaric and fight over what would smell just as sweet by any other name?

Instead of using Allah in the Herald, why not use God the Almighty? Or God the Great? Or even God the Merciful? Jehovah…. Jehovah,  Jehovah…God bears many name. I am more than certain He does not mind being called any name, as long as His name is not uttered in vain.

We are God’s creation, God’s children, God’s servants. God does not want us to fight over Him. He wants us to worship Him and do good to the humanity. He wants us to murmur his name in prayers, not scream His name while demonstrating Satanic deeds. God sent us to Earth to do good deeds and be good with each other. That is our purpose.

There’s no point in fighting for a loss cause, no point at all when you know that this is the country where extremists are above all. Don’t you know by now that the extremists are above the King and the government? Don’t you? Did you not see how powerful the extremists are?

They can make everyone, including the King and the government shudder and goes on their knees by terrorizing your family, your loved ones, and your children. They shall make your life a living hell. The King decreed “No… don’t do this, Islam is peace” and yet, they ignored the decree? The Prime Minister says “What went wrong? Sit and talk” and yet, his words were ignored completely.

These are the group of bastards, who claimed to be religious, and yet, they are not God-fearing. They are not afraid of hell’s fire. And therefore, they demonstrate their ways by burning your holy place and sanctuary. They are the kind who cackles like a mad sorcerer when the Muslim and non-Muslim started to have ill feelings for each other. These are the kind of people who does not follow their prophet’s ways…the prophet was a man of peace. He showed the beauty of Islam by forgiving, by showing how merciful Islam can be.

The extremists would never change their blasted ways. They are not qualified to be a Muslim, as Islam itself means peace. Extremists does not reflect that, and shall never reflect that, no matter what. Islam is a holy religion that promotes peace. Islam is beautiful. And yet these people are the kind who uses God’s name in vain.

They are the kind who provoke war and distort the harmony of the country by being a group of nincompoop…these kind of people, are the reason why weapons are created and nuclear warhead are made. These kind of people are the kind of people who plays God. They are the kind who will murder innocent babies who are born out of wedlock, and they are the kind of people who will make women become widows and children becomes orphans. They are the the kind who will torture and kill animals just because they think some animals does not deserve to live. They are the kind who claimed that they are holier than everything under the sun, and they demand we bow to them. In truth, they are murderers, demon possessed destroyers.

God Himself does not descend from His heavenly throne to burn witches at the stakes. God Himself does not light fire on those who defy Him with His own bare hands. And yet human who are extreme does that. God is above terrorist. God is above all, and therefore, God demonstrate mercy, God forgives, and God shows love through all of His beautiful creation.

Those who are truly God’s people…will not terrorize, will demonstrate mercy, will forgive, will love, and will pray for the sin of those who shall be burn in hell’s fire in thereafter.

Muslim, Islam is a religion of peace. Christians, Jesus died on the stake because of the sins of humanity. Muslims, Christians… a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

The extremists are not a part of Islam, or a part of Christianity. They are a part of hell, for their hearts are full of violence and have been possessed by demons and rage. They are the friends of demons, for only demons will wreak havoc on Earth.

Muslim and Christians, let us be at peace with each other and resolves any disagreement by negotiating peacefully. Be at peace with each other. That is the only way to put the demons in hell, where they truly belong. They deserve hell’s fire for inspiring ill feelings among us.

People of peace… I call upon you… please sign this petition. One signature, one voice. It can make a difference.

Condemn Any Act of Violence Towards People of Other Faiths


Cleffairy: We…are the children of Adam and Eve…or Adam and Hawa…we have the same forefathers. We’re all brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters does not burn each other’s home.

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The man who defy 'gravity': RIP Micheal @ Mikaeel Jackson

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Huyc1rjSs]

We Are the World by MJ.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw6GiqZyD0]

We Are The World- All star

This is a tribute to the man who unite people around the world in his own weird way. This man shows the world that it doesn’t matter if he’s black or white, he could still make his fans around the world unite and set the difference aside and listened to his beautiful songs and the messages he’s trying to get across.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson showed to the world too, that regardless of your religion, Christian or Muslim, you could still have at least one thing in common and put discrimination aside. His death today is a great loss to many charity bodies and shopping centre too, and I daresay, despite of being accused of many things-child molest in his home Neverland is one of them, people would always remember him as the King of Pop or the Prince of Plastic.

Instead of mourning for his death, people around the world is celebrating his life…the man who lived like a king. Radios, tv station, new media are blasting his songs and his news.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).

Jackson spent much of his life as the most famous person on the planet, and to many, his premature death felt both unthinkable and, oddly, inevitable.

Paramedics found Jackson in cardiac arrest when they arrived at his home shortly before 12:30 p.m. Pacific time, 3 minutes and 17 seconds after receiving a 911 call. His personal physician was already in the house performing CPR. Jackson was not breathing, and it appears he never regained consciousness. Paramedics treated Jackson at the house for 42 minutes, and he was declared dead at 2:26 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, about 2 miles from his home above Sunset Boulevard.

Los Angeles police said detectives would launch a thorough investigation of the death. They cautioned, however, that they do not believe Jackson was the victim of foul play and that the investigation is standard following the death of a person with this level of fame. Among the factors investigators said they would examine is any medication Jackson might have been taking; an autopsy was to be performed Friday.

His death was confirmed outside the hospital by one of his brothers, Jermaine, who once performed alongside Michael as a member of The Jackson 5, a family act that began in the steel mill town of Gary before exploding in the music industry like a boulder in a pond.

Jackson had come to Los Angeles to rehearse for 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a run of shows that was scheduled to kick off July 13 and had been dubbed “This Is It.” The concerts were to have been the start of an ambitious bid to resuscitate his career, with the goal of beginning to wipe out Jackson’s staggering debt — he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and would have earned $1 million a night — and return the singer to cultural relevancy.

Jackson — who most famously resided in the Santa Ynez Valley at his Neverland Ranch, named for the island where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys were in no danger of growing up — had taken up residence for the rehearsals in a seven-bedroom estate near Bel Air, which he had rented for $100,000 a month.

The singer’s backers, concert promoter AEG Live and the financier Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, envisioned the London appearances as an audition of sorts for a career reboot that would go on to include a world tour, movies, a Graceland-like museum, new music and revues in Macau and Las Vegas.

Those close to Jackson have said he had been working diligently to get in shape for his comeback. A year ago, he was gaunt and used a wheelchair, but recently he’d been exercising with a trainer in addition to daylong rehearsals with dancers half his age. “He’s in great shape,” his manager, Frank DiLeo, said last month.

In order for the promoters to get insurance for the London shows, Jackson underwent a four-hour physical with an independent doctor this spring. Rand Phillips, the chief executive officer of AEG Live, the promoter, said that the medical screening uncovered “no issues whatsoever.”

Jackson’s financial and legal woes had turned him into an object of fascination, pity and revulsion in recent years. Still, it would be difficult to overstate Jackson’s impact on Western culture — though Guinness World Records did its best, asserting that it had concluded, objectively, that Jackson was the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time.”

But Jackson seemed to mirror, too, the newer, darker traditions of American celebrity — living in excess, in danger, in public.

Interviews, court papers and documentaries revealed a barrage of strange and destructive behavior. Jackson reportedly became addicted to painkillers and was forced into drug rehab.

In 2003, following the release of a documentary in which Jackson was seen holding hands and arranging sleepovers with a teenage boy — and after years of murmurs that Jackson had cultivated unusual relationships with children — Jackson was charged with seven counts of child sexual abuse.

His fans and defenders — among them Elizabeth Taylor, a friend who took to Larry King to declare that she’s never seen any “touchy-feely” — argued that Jackson was, in effect, still a child. And after a five-month trial in Santa Maria, Calif., he was acquitted in June 2005 on all counts. But his career had never recovered.

On 21st November ,the singer, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, converted to Islam in a ceremony at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. He is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated. According to The Sun, the ceremony took place while Jackson, 50, was recording an album at the home of Steve Porcaro, a keyboard player who composed music on his Thriller album.

The former Jackson 5 star was counseled by David Wharnsby, a Canadian songwriter, and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who have both converted. A source said Jackson had appeared a “bit down” and added: “They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.

“An imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”
His brother, Jermaine Friday, suggested Jackson would convert having taken an interest in Islam since Friday’s conversion in 1989.

“When I came back from Mecca I got him a lot of books and he asked me lots of things about my religion and I told him that it’s peaceful and beautiful,” said Friday.

“He read everything and he was proud of me that I found something that would give me inner strength and peace.

“I think it is most probable that Michael will convert to Islam.

“He could do so much, just like I am trying to do. Michael and I and the word of God, we could do so much.”

Michael Jackson, a seminal figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than a half-billion copies, died on Thursday 25th June 2009, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles chateau. He was 50 years old.

Cleffairy: Well, black or white, Christian or Muslim, the man has definitely defy gravity in his own way, and it’s the contribution towards the music industry as well as his humanitarian works that counts. Prayers and Al-Fatiha for the who was born black but turned white in his later years. It is indeed a great loss. R.I.P Micheal @ Mikaeel.

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The man who defy ‘gravity’: RIP Micheal @ Mikaeel Jackson

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Huyc1rjSs]

We Are the World by MJ.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw6GiqZyD0]

We Are The World- All star

This is a tribute to the man who unite people around the world in his own weird way. This man shows the world that it doesn’t matter if he’s black or white, he could still make his fans around the world unite and set the difference aside and listened to his beautiful songs and the messages he’s trying to get across.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson showed to the world too, that regardless of your religion, Christian or Muslim, you could still have at least one thing in common and put discrimination aside. His death today is a great loss to many charity bodies and shopping centre too, and I daresay, despite of being accused of many things-child molest in his home Neverland is one of them, people would always remember him as the King of Pop or the Prince of Plastic.

Instead of mourning for his death, people around the world is celebrating his life…the man who lived like a king. Radios, tv station, new media are blasting his songs and his news.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).

Jackson spent much of his life as the most famous person on the planet, and to many, his premature death felt both unthinkable and, oddly, inevitable.

Paramedics found Jackson in cardiac arrest when they arrived at his home shortly before 12:30 p.m. Pacific time, 3 minutes and 17 seconds after receiving a 911 call. His personal physician was already in the house performing CPR. Jackson was not breathing, and it appears he never regained consciousness. Paramedics treated Jackson at the house for 42 minutes, and he was declared dead at 2:26 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, about 2 miles from his home above Sunset Boulevard.

Los Angeles police said detectives would launch a thorough investigation of the death. They cautioned, however, that they do not believe Jackson was the victim of foul play and that the investigation is standard following the death of a person with this level of fame. Among the factors investigators said they would examine is any medication Jackson might have been taking; an autopsy was to be performed Friday.

His death was confirmed outside the hospital by one of his brothers, Jermaine, who once performed alongside Michael as a member of The Jackson 5, a family act that began in the steel mill town of Gary before exploding in the music industry like a boulder in a pond.

Jackson had come to Los Angeles to rehearse for 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a run of shows that was scheduled to kick off July 13 and had been dubbed “This Is It.” The concerts were to have been the start of an ambitious bid to resuscitate his career, with the goal of beginning to wipe out Jackson’s staggering debt — he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and would have earned $1 million a night — and return the singer to cultural relevancy.

Jackson — who most famously resided in the Santa Ynez Valley at his Neverland Ranch, named for the island where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys were in no danger of growing up — had taken up residence for the rehearsals in a seven-bedroom estate near Bel Air, which he had rented for $100,000 a month.

The singer’s backers, concert promoter AEG Live and the financier Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, envisioned the London appearances as an audition of sorts for a career reboot that would go on to include a world tour, movies, a Graceland-like museum, new music and revues in Macau and Las Vegas.

Those close to Jackson have said he had been working diligently to get in shape for his comeback. A year ago, he was gaunt and used a wheelchair, but recently he’d been exercising with a trainer in addition to daylong rehearsals with dancers half his age. “He’s in great shape,” his manager, Frank DiLeo, said last month.

In order for the promoters to get insurance for the London shows, Jackson underwent a four-hour physical with an independent doctor this spring. Rand Phillips, the chief executive officer of AEG Live, the promoter, said that the medical screening uncovered “no issues whatsoever.”

Jackson’s financial and legal woes had turned him into an object of fascination, pity and revulsion in recent years. Still, it would be difficult to overstate Jackson’s impact on Western culture — though Guinness World Records did its best, asserting that it had concluded, objectively, that Jackson was the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time.”

But Jackson seemed to mirror, too, the newer, darker traditions of American celebrity — living in excess, in danger, in public.

Interviews, court papers and documentaries revealed a barrage of strange and destructive behavior. Jackson reportedly became addicted to painkillers and was forced into drug rehab.

In 2003, following the release of a documentary in which Jackson was seen holding hands and arranging sleepovers with a teenage boy — and after years of murmurs that Jackson had cultivated unusual relationships with children — Jackson was charged with seven counts of child sexual abuse.

His fans and defenders — among them Elizabeth Taylor, a friend who took to Larry King to declare that she’s never seen any “touchy-feely” — argued that Jackson was, in effect, still a child. And after a five-month trial in Santa Maria, Calif., he was acquitted in June 2005 on all counts. But his career had never recovered.

On 21st November ,the singer, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, converted to Islam in a ceremony at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. He is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated. According to The Sun, the ceremony took place while Jackson, 50, was recording an album at the home of Steve Porcaro, a keyboard player who composed music on his Thriller album.

The former Jackson 5 star was counseled by David Wharnsby, a Canadian songwriter, and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who have both converted. A source said Jackson had appeared a “bit down” and added: “They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.

“An imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”
His brother, Jermaine Friday, suggested Jackson would convert having taken an interest in Islam since Friday’s conversion in 1989.

“When I came back from Mecca I got him a lot of books and he asked me lots of things about my religion and I told him that it’s peaceful and beautiful,” said Friday.

“He read everything and he was proud of me that I found something that would give me inner strength and peace.

“I think it is most probable that Michael will convert to Islam.

“He could do so much, just like I am trying to do. Michael and I and the word of God, we could do so much.”

Michael Jackson, a seminal figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than a half-billion copies, died on Thursday 25th June 2009, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles chateau. He was 50 years old.

Cleffairy: Well, black or white, Christian or Muslim, the man has definitely defy gravity in his own way, and it’s the contribution towards the music industry as well as his humanitarian works that counts. Prayers and Al-Fatiha for the who was born black but turned white in his later years. It is indeed a great loss. R.I.P Micheal @ Mikaeel.

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The man who defy ‘gravity’: RIP Micheal @ Mikaeel Jackson

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Huyc1rjSs]

We Are the World by MJ.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw6GiqZyD0]

We Are The World- All star

This is a tribute to the man who unite people around the world in his own weird way. This man shows the world that it doesn’t matter if he’s black or white, he could still make his fans around the world unite and set the difference aside and listened to his beautiful songs and the messages he’s trying to get across.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson showed to the world too, that regardless of your religion, Christian or Muslim, you could still have at least one thing in common and put discrimination aside. His death today is a great loss to many charity bodies and shopping centre too, and I daresay, despite of being accused of many things-child molest in his home Neverland is one of them, people would always remember him as the King of Pop or the Prince of Plastic.

Instead of mourning for his death, people around the world is celebrating his life…the man who lived like a king. Radios, tv station, new media are blasting his songs and his news.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).

Jackson spent much of his life as the most famous person on the planet, and to many, his premature death felt both unthinkable and, oddly, inevitable.

Paramedics found Jackson in cardiac arrest when they arrived at his home shortly before 12:30 p.m. Pacific time, 3 minutes and 17 seconds after receiving a 911 call. His personal physician was already in the house performing CPR. Jackson was not breathing, and it appears he never regained consciousness. Paramedics treated Jackson at the house for 42 minutes, and he was declared dead at 2:26 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, about 2 miles from his home above Sunset Boulevard.

Los Angeles police said detectives would launch a thorough investigation of the death. They cautioned, however, that they do not believe Jackson was the victim of foul play and that the investigation is standard following the death of a person with this level of fame. Among the factors investigators said they would examine is any medication Jackson might have been taking; an autopsy was to be performed Friday.

His death was confirmed outside the hospital by one of his brothers, Jermaine, who once performed alongside Michael as a member of The Jackson 5, a family act that began in the steel mill town of Gary before exploding in the music industry like a boulder in a pond.

Jackson had come to Los Angeles to rehearse for 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a run of shows that was scheduled to kick off July 13 and had been dubbed “This Is It.” The concerts were to have been the start of an ambitious bid to resuscitate his career, with the goal of beginning to wipe out Jackson’s staggering debt — he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and would have earned $1 million a night — and return the singer to cultural relevancy.

Jackson — who most famously resided in the Santa Ynez Valley at his Neverland Ranch, named for the island where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys were in no danger of growing up — had taken up residence for the rehearsals in a seven-bedroom estate near Bel Air, which he had rented for $100,000 a month.

The singer’s backers, concert promoter AEG Live and the financier Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, envisioned the London appearances as an audition of sorts for a career reboot that would go on to include a world tour, movies, a Graceland-like museum, new music and revues in Macau and Las Vegas.

Those close to Jackson have said he had been working diligently to get in shape for his comeback. A year ago, he was gaunt and used a wheelchair, but recently he’d been exercising with a trainer in addition to daylong rehearsals with dancers half his age. “He’s in great shape,” his manager, Frank DiLeo, said last month.

In order for the promoters to get insurance for the London shows, Jackson underwent a four-hour physical with an independent doctor this spring. Rand Phillips, the chief executive officer of AEG Live, the promoter, said that the medical screening uncovered “no issues whatsoever.”

Jackson’s financial and legal woes had turned him into an object of fascination, pity and revulsion in recent years. Still, it would be difficult to overstate Jackson’s impact on Western culture — though Guinness World Records did its best, asserting that it had concluded, objectively, that Jackson was the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time.”

But Jackson seemed to mirror, too, the newer, darker traditions of American celebrity — living in excess, in danger, in public.

Interviews, court papers and documentaries revealed a barrage of strange and destructive behavior. Jackson reportedly became addicted to painkillers and was forced into drug rehab.

In 2003, following the release of a documentary in which Jackson was seen holding hands and arranging sleepovers with a teenage boy — and after years of murmurs that Jackson had cultivated unusual relationships with children — Jackson was charged with seven counts of child sexual abuse.

His fans and defenders — among them Elizabeth Taylor, a friend who took to Larry King to declare that she’s never seen any “touchy-feely” — argued that Jackson was, in effect, still a child. And after a five-month trial in Santa Maria, Calif., he was acquitted in June 2005 on all counts. But his career had never recovered.

On 21st November ,the singer, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, converted to Islam in a ceremony at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. He is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated. According to The Sun, the ceremony took place while Jackson, 50, was recording an album at the home of Steve Porcaro, a keyboard player who composed music on his Thriller album.

The former Jackson 5 star was counseled by David Wharnsby, a Canadian songwriter, and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who have both converted. A source said Jackson had appeared a “bit down” and added: “They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.

“An imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”
His brother, Jermaine Friday, suggested Jackson would convert having taken an interest in Islam since Friday’s conversion in 1989.

“When I came back from Mecca I got him a lot of books and he asked me lots of things about my religion and I told him that it’s peaceful and beautiful,” said Friday.

“He read everything and he was proud of me that I found something that would give me inner strength and peace.

“I think it is most probable that Michael will convert to Islam.

“He could do so much, just like I am trying to do. Michael and I and the word of God, we could do so much.”

Michael Jackson, a seminal figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than a half-billion copies, died on Thursday 25th June 2009, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles chateau. He was 50 years old.

Cleffairy: Well, black or white, Christian or Muslim, the man has definitely defy gravity in his own way, and it’s the contribution towards the music industry as well as his humanitarian works that counts. Prayers and Al-Fatiha for the who was born black but turned white in his later years. It is indeed a great loss. R.I.P Micheal @ Mikaeel.

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The man who defy ‘gravity’: RIP Micheal @ Mikaeel Jackson

mjb4

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Huyc1rjSs]

We Are the World by MJ.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw6GiqZyD0]

We Are The World- All star

This is a tribute to the man who unite people around the world in his own weird way. This man shows the world that it doesn’t matter if he’s black or white, he could still make his fans around the world unite and set the difference aside and listened to his beautiful songs and the messages he’s trying to get across.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson showed to the world too, that regardless of your religion, Christian or Muslim, you could still have at least one thing in common and put discrimination aside. His death today is a great loss to many charity bodies and shopping centre too, and I daresay, despite of being accused of many things-child molest in his home Neverland is one of them, people would always remember him as the King of Pop or the Prince of Plastic.

Instead of mourning for his death, people around the world is celebrating his life…the man who lived like a king. Radios, tv station, new media are blasting his songs and his news.

Micheal Jackson a.k.a Mikaeel Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).

Jackson spent much of his life as the most famous person on the planet, and to many, his premature death felt both unthinkable and, oddly, inevitable.

Paramedics found Jackson in cardiac arrest when they arrived at his home shortly before 12:30 p.m. Pacific time, 3 minutes and 17 seconds after receiving a 911 call. His personal physician was already in the house performing CPR. Jackson was not breathing, and it appears he never regained consciousness. Paramedics treated Jackson at the house for 42 minutes, and he was declared dead at 2:26 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center, about 2 miles from his home above Sunset Boulevard.

Los Angeles police said detectives would launch a thorough investigation of the death. They cautioned, however, that they do not believe Jackson was the victim of foul play and that the investigation is standard following the death of a person with this level of fame. Among the factors investigators said they would examine is any medication Jackson might have been taking; an autopsy was to be performed Friday.

His death was confirmed outside the hospital by one of his brothers, Jermaine, who once performed alongside Michael as a member of The Jackson 5, a family act that began in the steel mill town of Gary before exploding in the music industry like a boulder in a pond.

Jackson had come to Los Angeles to rehearse for 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a run of shows that was scheduled to kick off July 13 and had been dubbed “This Is It.” The concerts were to have been the start of an ambitious bid to resuscitate his career, with the goal of beginning to wipe out Jackson’s staggering debt — he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and would have earned $1 million a night — and return the singer to cultural relevancy.

Jackson — who most famously resided in the Santa Ynez Valley at his Neverland Ranch, named for the island where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys were in no danger of growing up — had taken up residence for the rehearsals in a seven-bedroom estate near Bel Air, which he had rented for $100,000 a month.

The singer’s backers, concert promoter AEG Live and the financier Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, envisioned the London appearances as an audition of sorts for a career reboot that would go on to include a world tour, movies, a Graceland-like museum, new music and revues in Macau and Las Vegas.

Those close to Jackson have said he had been working diligently to get in shape for his comeback. A year ago, he was gaunt and used a wheelchair, but recently he’d been exercising with a trainer in addition to daylong rehearsals with dancers half his age. “He’s in great shape,” his manager, Frank DiLeo, said last month.

In order for the promoters to get insurance for the London shows, Jackson underwent a four-hour physical with an independent doctor this spring. Rand Phillips, the chief executive officer of AEG Live, the promoter, said that the medical screening uncovered “no issues whatsoever.”

Jackson’s financial and legal woes had turned him into an object of fascination, pity and revulsion in recent years. Still, it would be difficult to overstate Jackson’s impact on Western culture — though Guinness World Records did its best, asserting that it had concluded, objectively, that Jackson was the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Time.”

But Jackson seemed to mirror, too, the newer, darker traditions of American celebrity — living in excess, in danger, in public.

Interviews, court papers and documentaries revealed a barrage of strange and destructive behavior. Jackson reportedly became addicted to painkillers and was forced into drug rehab.

In 2003, following the release of a documentary in which Jackson was seen holding hands and arranging sleepovers with a teenage boy — and after years of murmurs that Jackson had cultivated unusual relationships with children — Jackson was charged with seven counts of child sexual abuse.

His fans and defenders — among them Elizabeth Taylor, a friend who took to Larry King to declare that she’s never seen any “touchy-feely” — argued that Jackson was, in effect, still a child. And after a five-month trial in Santa Maria, Calif., he was acquitted in June 2005 on all counts. But his career had never recovered.

On 21st November ,the singer, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, converted to Islam in a ceremony at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. He is said to have sat on the floor and worn a small hat while an imam officiated. According to The Sun, the ceremony took place while Jackson, 50, was recording an album at the home of Steve Porcaro, a keyboard player who composed music on his Thriller album.

The former Jackson 5 star was counseled by David Wharnsby, a Canadian songwriter, and Phillip Bubal, a producer, who have both converted. A source said Jackson had appeared a “bit down” and added: “They began talking to him about their beliefs, and how they thought they had become better people after they converted. Michael soon began warming to the idea.

“An imam was summoned from the mosque and Michael went through the shahada, which is the Muslim declaration of belief.”
His brother, Jermaine Friday, suggested Jackson would convert having taken an interest in Islam since Friday’s conversion in 1989.

“When I came back from Mecca I got him a lot of books and he asked me lots of things about my religion and I told him that it’s peaceful and beautiful,” said Friday.

“He read everything and he was proud of me that I found something that would give me inner strength and peace.

“I think it is most probable that Michael will convert to Islam.

“He could do so much, just like I am trying to do. Michael and I and the word of God, we could do so much.”

Michael Jackson, a seminal figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than a half-billion copies, died on Thursday 25th June 2009, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles chateau. He was 50 years old.

Cleffairy: Well, black or white, Christian or Muslim, the man has definitely defy gravity in his own way, and it’s the contribution towards the music industry as well as his humanitarian works that counts. Prayers and Al-Fatiha for the who was born black but turned white in his later years. It is indeed a great loss. R.I.P Micheal @ Mikaeel.

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Eid Al Adha

This is a bit early, but here’s wishing all Over A Cuppa Tea Muslim readers a blessed Eid Al Adha and happy holidays to the rest of you in Malaysia. Here’s my take on Eid Al Adha. I’m not the brightest crayon in the box, so please feel free to correct me on facts on Eid Al Adha if there’s any flaws in my writings.

Eid Al Adha takes place roughly seventy days after the end of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month and coincides with the day that pilgrims performing the Hajj. The Edi Al Adha day starts very early. Muslims all around the world would dress in their best clothes, and go to a communal morning prayer.

As Ibrahim did, all financially able Muslims must make a sacrifice (Qurban). Families who are not financially able may get together to pool their money and buy an animal. The animal sacrificed must be of a certain age and quality. As Muslims make the sacrifice they will recite a prayer.  One third of Qurban meat  will be given to the poor and needy, one third to the extended family while one third will be for his own household.

Like Eid Fitri in Malaysia, the holiday is also a time for visiting and greeting friends and family, for eating (hmm, Malaysians can be such glutton at times) and for giving pocket money to young children and the elders. Open house during Eid Al Adha is also common practice in Malaysia.

Yours truly never fully understood the real meaning of Eid Al Adha. However, I’ve been told that it’s a Festival of Sacrifice. And it’s actually religious festival observation celebrated by Muslims and  Druze worldwide in commemoration of the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. The devil tempted Ibrahim by saying he should disobey God and spare his son. As Ibrahim was about to sacrifice his son, God intervened and instead provided a lamb as the sacrifice. Here’s an excerp of the sacrificial story that you guys might want to have a look at:

Ismail (Isaac) looks up lovingly at his father, Ibrahim (Abraham). there’s no fear written on his  expression despite the knife in his father’s hand – a knife which, he believes, will soon be slithered on his throat and take his life. A grimace of pain is hidden behind the father’s beard. The father ignores the ethereal whispers that surround him, coming from the very devil himself, urging him not to do it, to disobey God’s order. But Ibrahim (Abraham) persist.He knows what must be done.

The father looks at the boy one last time, then, slowly, reluctantly, raises his knife to strike the boy down.

The strike is never made. Instead, God, who, in order to test Ibrahim’s(Abraham’s) faith, had ordered Ibrahim (Abraham) to kill his son, intervenes, sending a lamb to be sacrificed in his place. From this day forth, no human sacrifice would ever be made by the people of the book.

This is why today all over the world Muslims who have the means to, sacrifice an animal (usually a goat, sheep, cows or camels), as a reminder of Ibrahim’s obedience to God. The meat is then shared out with family, friends (Muslims or non-Muslims), as well as the poor members of the community. (Do note that the child of the sacrifice was known as Ismail whereas the Judeo-Christian name was Isaac).

Distributing meat among the needy or poor is considered an essential part of the festival during this period. The main point for sharing the meat with the poor is symbolic of sharing wealth with others and to remind the devotees that everyone is equal in the eyes of God, and the only things that differentiate one devotee and another is not wealth, but the good deeds.

Cleffairy :Make the sacrifice for God’s sake, not political gains. Eid Mubarak and happy holiday to all.

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Oppression, choices, women, and clashes of the world

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I was so engrossed in writing my novel last night that I did not realize that U-jean is online. My concentration on writing my novel was disrupted for a while by the message that she sent. She sent me the url for the video above, and suddenly I felt human again, as I’m given another thing to speak up for, which is, control, choices and women. While writing a novel these days seems like a task to me but writing non-fiction articles is not, I suddenly wonder if I finally lost my touch in writing novels and romantic fictions. Words flow easily when I write non-fiction things or things that’s regarding to what’s going on around me or around the world. I actually stopped writing my bloody NaNoWriMo novel for a while so that I’m able to write this one. I wonder what has become of me. Perhaps, age is catching up on me, and I am no longer oblivious to what’s going on around me.

To fully understand what I will be ranting about this time, you readers would have to watch the youtube video above.

As I mention repeatedly in my previous entries ever since I started this weblog, I am not a religious person, and very far from being religious. I feel that I have a lot more to learn about religions of the world, and I prefer to keep my mind open. I embrace the idea that all religion are good and beautiful in their own way. I try my best to do good deeds in my life not because I fear hellfire or retribution in my afterlife, but it’s because I’m raise to live my life with clear conscience and with moral values.

I have always believed that every religion is beautiful in it’s own way. Islam included. Islam itself means peace and according to history that has been dictate, Islam has liberate many men and saved so many women from being sold off as slaves. Not to mention stop baby girls from being buried alive as society back then see girls as a liability rather than assets. Islam has changed the life of many. The teaching itself is meant to bring peace to the world and change the people to be better human beings. Islam thought people about patience, tolerance and respect.

Yes, indeed, Islam is a beautiful religion. But in the quest for power, human beings make use of the religion to oppress one another, going against the real teaching of Islam where Muslims are supposed to love mankind, not violate the ones who do not share the same faith as them. Human use Islam to control the weaker ones. Women are usually victims in the quests for power and monopoly. Women are silenced by the voices who uses holy writings to force women to submit to their wimps. Women are denied their freedom to live like a human beings, instead, women are forced to live like men’s possession, regardless of their contributions and roles in the modern world.

Some humans who prayed five times a day was convinced that they are guaranteed eternal bliss in heaven during their afterlife. It is good to have something to believe in, such as afterlife, but what is not good about it that the fact that they feel secure and blessed by God makes them conceited, and instead of showing the beauty of Islam to people who do not share the same faith, they mock and insulted the ones who do not share the same faith with them.

Feeling so powerful that they are guaranteed a good afterlife by praying and following sunnah, they feel that they are superior, and so, they demand that the rest of the world follow their lead. They feel that is the right thing to do, and they are convinced that the Holy Quran requires them to spread the good faith through demanding people to follow their lead.

That is not right, isn’t it? The Prophet Muhammad himself spread Islam through gentle teaching. He showed to the world that Islam is beautiful because it’s not about forcing people, it’s not about gaining power, but it’s all about gentle persuasion, leading by good example, and protecting the weak. According to history, he never force people to be a Muslim, but showed them Islamic way of life until people fell in love with the religion itself because of the peaceful and protective characteristic.

And yet, why do we have people forcing others to believe in what they do not believe in a rather harsh way? It’s either you believe it, or we’ll condemn you, that’s what human these days do. Why can’t they follow the prophet’s footstep when they are spreading Islam?

Why do people around the world clashes with each other because of religion and what they believe in? Major wars are caused by religion…. The Crusaders versus the Jihads….no I’m wrong, religion do not clash with each other. No religion promotes war and disrespect towards one another, it’s human that uses religion’s name in vain to violate one another and in the process, destroy each other’s civilization and take away many innocent lives in the process.

The calls for peace are all but rudely ignored. Like what the lady said in the video, it’s about time the Muslim think about what they could contribute to the world, not demand the world follow their wimps or demand people to share same beliefs as them.

But to me, it’s not just the Muslim who should think of what they could contribute to the world to make the world a better place to live in, but everyone should think of what they could offer to the world and live in peace with one another instead of trampling the weaker ones or demand others believe in what they believed in.

Cleffairy: God create mankind to be at peace and harmony with each other and religion as a way of life. But why  human beings are constantly disrupting peace and uses religion’s name in vain?

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